It's taken a few years for the Chicago Comedy Film Festival to find its footing. Back for its fourth year this weekend, the lineup is noticeably stronger. As always, the focus is on small indie comedies. I got a look at three. 'The Yank' (8 p.m. Friday) Of the films I screened, this romantic comedy, from Cleveland-based writer and star Sean Lackey, is the weakest. The premise isn't half bad: A sheltered blue-collar guy from a hard-core Irish-American family travels to the old country for a pal's wedding. The culture clash between his fully Americanized Irish heritage and the reality of modern-day Ireland is decent comic territory if handled right. Lackey...

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It's taken a few years for the Chicago Comedy Film Festival to find its footing. Back for its fourth year this weekend, the lineup is noticeably stronger. As always, the focus is on small indie comedies. I got a look at three.
'The Yank'
(8 p.m. Friday)...